Fan



Patented duly ll, i924-,

`unitn-iran Wisin, or

.application filed IW arch 7, 1922.

T all @0.7mm t may concern:

.Be it known that I, EDWARD llnn., a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, county of Kings,and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Fan, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention is a hand fan, the object being to produce an articlewherein a rigid l0 handle is unitary with the fan body, incontradistinction to ordinary artificially made fans composed of a paperbody and a wooden handle attached rigidly together by tacks or staples.

According to this invention, the body and the handle are cut or stampedfrom appropriate material in a single piece to produce a blank of formwhich by subsequent manipulation results in a handle integral with. thefan body, said handle possessing the stiffness or rigidity desirable formanipulating the article. lin addition to securing a handle unitary4with the fan body, it is desirable to stiffen the connection betweenthe handle and the body with a View to minimizing the tendency of thebody or the handle to break off in the act of using` the fan, and tothis end I fashion the blank with rings that are positioned in lappingrelation to the body and are suitably attached thereto, said wingsperforming` the function of stays in adding to the stiffness of thebody.

@ther functions and advantages of the invention will appear from thefollowing description taken in connection with the drawings, wherein-Figure 1 is a plan View of the cut out blank scored and slitted toproduce a fan with an integral handle in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a similar view of the completed article produced from theblank of Figure 1.

Figures 3 and 4 are horizontal cross sections taken in the planes of thedotted lines 3-3 and @-4, respectively, of Figure 2.

The article is produced by cutting or stamping a blank, shown in Figure1, from appropriate material, such as cardboard or tagboard, althoughany material suitable for the purpose may be used. Said blank comprisesa body member A and a part which may be described as a shank B, folds CC and D D and wings E E, said blank being slitted along the lines a andcreased or scored at lines c d e f, .As shown the BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FAN.

Serial No. 541,729.

slits a o extend from the margins of the blank inwardly to the scorelines c c so as to separate the body A from certain folds and wings. Thescore lines c c. bound the shank B which remains in the plane of thebody A, whereas the score lines d f are parallel to the score lines c cso as to determine the limits of the folds C C and D D.

The body A is of a desirable form, as shown, being of circular outlinefor the major part, although the particular shape is nt a factor in myarticle.

The blank having been cut or stamped, it remains to manipulate the samein a manner to produce the handle and the stays, and such manipulationis performed by doubling the fold D with the wing E upon the fold C onthe line (l, and by doubling the folds C D on the line c upon the shankB, thus bringing the wing E into lapping relation to the body A, as inFigures 2 and 3, and in a similar manner theV folds D with wing E isdoubled on the line f upon the fold (l, and then folds C D are doubledon the line c into lapping relation to shank B and for the wing E tooverlap the body A. The folds C D and wing E are doubled in an oppositedirection to the folds C D and E', and then the doubled material haslapping relation to the shank on the opposite faces thereof, andsimilarly the wings E F/ overlap the body on the opposite faces thereof,all. as clearly shown in Figures 2, 3 and l of the drawings. In myarticle the wings E E are positioned to overlap the fan body adjacentthe union between the handle and said body, and in the article shown inFigures 2 and 3 these wings are extended for appreciable distances andin opposite directions to an axial line which intersects the body andthe handle. With an axial line extending through the handle and thebody, the wing l extends in one direction from said line and intooverlapping relation to one face of the body, whereas the other wing Eextends from the axial line in an opposite direction to the wing E, saidwings E E being shown respectively in full and dotted lines in Figure 1.The wings E E are at the base of the fan body and add materially to thestability of the connection between said body and the handle, as aresult of which the article will not rupture at the weakest point whenthe fan is used by swaying it back and forth.

The folded. material is united to the shank in a desi-red Way, and thewings E E are united to the body A; in a preferred form, t-he folds C Dare cemented to each other and to the shank, and folds C D are ce mentedtogether and to the shank, said wings E E being adhesively attached tothe body. f

The handle is thus composed of the shank and the four folds adhesivelyattached so as to produce a rigid structure extending' out- -W-,ardlyfrom the fan body and integral therewith. lThe wings extend from thehandle inwardly toward the body and in lapping rela tion thereto, saidwings being adhesively attached and extending for a substantial distancealong the inner edge of the body adjacent to the handle, so as toprovide stays Whichzminimize that tendency of the body in the use of thefan to crack or break at and djacent to .the union of the handle Withthe ody.

The blank is of such form that the Lentire article is produced bycutting from material with a `small amount of waste or scrap, thuscontributing' to the economy of manufacture. Obviously, the body and thehandle ,may be :finished or decorated in a desired manner to add to theattractiveness ,of the article, and if desired, the body may serve as ameans for the display of advertising matter.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim as new anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. As a new article, a fan embodying a body portion, a handle integraltherewith, and a plurality of wings extending; from the handle intooverlapping relation to the body on the respective faces thereof, saidwings contacting with the body adjacent the union with the handle andsaid wings extending in opposite directions from an axial lineintersecting the handle and the body.

2. As a new article, a fan embodying a body portion, a handle composedof a plurality of members folded into overlapping relation, said membersbeing integral with each other and one of which is integral with thebody portion, and a plurality of wings integral with certain outermembers of said handle, said wings extending outwardly from the line ofthe folded handle and into overlapping relation to the body portionadjacent the union `thereof with said handle,

said wings extending in opposite directions from an axial klineintersectingl the handle and the body portion and said wings beingsecured in iixed relation to the .body portion on the respective facesthereof.

ln testimony whereof I hare hereto signed my name this 20th day ofFebruary, 1922.

EDVA RD WEIL.

